Other, moving starlike cluster

I  was  walking  west  along  Meadow  Street  in  Garden City, NY  on  a  cold  clear  wintry  night.   I  was  with  a  freind  and  we  were  on  our  war  to  the  nearby  Mobil  gas  station  to  make  calls  to  our  girl  freinds.   There  was  only one  phone  in  the  house  those  days  and  it  was  centrally  located  where  everyone  could  hear  my  calls.    I  live  only  about  15  miles  from  Kennedy  Airport  (then  Idelwild  Airport).    It  was  not  unusual  to  hear  jets  flying  over.    While  walking  i  heard  what  i  thought  was  a  jet.   When  we  looked  up,  we  saw  what  appeared  to  be  a  group  of  stars.   They  were  identicle  to  stars.   There  was  approximately  15  to  20  of  them.   They  were  flying  easterly  and  were  almost  straight  overhead.    As  they  passed  by  i  noticed  that  the  sound  i  was  hearing  was  from  them.   The  sound  tracked  their  path.    After  they  passed  over,   they  all  of  a  sudden  made  a  right  turn  and  accelerated  straight  south  out  over the  ocean and  they  got  louder  as  they  left.    While  they  were  passing  overhead,  we  noticed  that  the  background  stars  went  right  through  them  without  blinking  off  and  on.    That's  how  i  knew  they  were  individual  objects.    When  i  say  they  made  a  right  turn,  what  i  mean  is,  they  made  a  right angle  or  square  turn  with  out  slowing  down.   In  fact,  they  immediately  accelerated  as  they  made  the  turn.    We  then  continued  on  our  way  to  the  phones  and  looked  up  the  Air  Force  in  the  phone  book.    We  told  someone  there  what  we  had  seen.   He  responded  "Sorry  kid,  no  UFO's  scheduled  for  tonight" .    We  knew  right  away  no  one  would  believe  us.
Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate.  PD